# Quote — Sissela Bok, Lying

> Honesty from health professionals matters more to patients than almost everything else that they experience when ill.

- Author: [Sissela Bok](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sissela-bok.md)
- Book: [Lying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sissela-bok/lying.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sissela_Bok#Lying:_Moral_Choice_in_Public_and_Private_Life_(1978)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sissela-bok/lying/honesty-from-health

## More from this book

> Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sissela-bok/lying/trust-and-integrity.md)

> Act only on the maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sissela-bok/lying/act-only-on-the.md)

> Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sissela-bok/lying/whatever-matters-to-human.md)